Tuesday 8 December 2009

It's Trial Tuesday!

Crikey, database trials are like buses, you wait ages for one then several come along at once. In addition to the link resolver, we have, until 31st January, LISTA full text and SocINDEX. Shanelessly cribbing from EBSCO:
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database also contains full text for more than 240 journals. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2,066,400 records with subject headings from a 19,750+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 820 books and monographs, and full text for 13,947 conference papers.

Watch out for the LinkSource graphic, which may or may not indicate the presence of full-text elsewhere:



Available on and off-campus until 31st January. The more usage you make of these databases, the more likely we'll (make great attempts to) purchase them. Now I must go and make sure that these databases are available off-campus.

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